pulchri- +

(Latin: beautiful; pulchritudo, from pulcher)

Bonitas/veritas/pulchritas.

Goodness/truth/beauty.

Motto of Marycrest College, Davenport, Iowa, USA.

Pulchra terra Dei donum.

This fair land is the gift of God.

pulchritude

1. Great physical beauty and appeal; comeliness.
2. Beauty; handsomeness; grace; that quality of form which pleases the eye.
3. Moral beauty; those qualities of the mind which good men love and approve.

One oddity about pulchritude is that it almost vanished from British English after the seventeenth century, but has survived in American English.

pulchritudinous

1. Characterized by or having great physical beauty and appeal.
2. Physically beautiful; comely.

Pulchritudo et salubritas.

Beauty and health.

Sat pulchra si sat bona.

Beautiful enough if she is good enough.

Also translated as: "Handsome is as handsome does" or "One's actions count for more than one's looks".

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